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Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: David Howells <dhowells at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil dot cx>, torvalds at osdl dot org, hch at infradead dot org, dwmw2 at infradead dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 29 Nov 2004 14:34:52 -0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
- References: <20041125210137.GD2849@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk><19865.1101395592@redhat.com><orvfbtzt7t.fsf@livre.redhat.lsd.ic.unicamp.br><12983.1101470307@redhat.com>
On Nov 26, 2004, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> How about calling the interface headers "kapi*/" instead of "user*/". In case
> you haven't guessed, "kapi" would be short for "kernel-api".
I've seen kapi being used to reference the api exposed by the kernel
to modules, but not the abi exposed to userland. ukabi sounds more
appropriate for the latter, although many people might wonder what's
with this United Kingdom ABI :-)
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